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THE observation of the 'green flash' with a near horizon, presumably at Harrow, recorded by Mr. D. R. Barber in Nature of August 4, p. 146, recalls one of which I gave an account in the Meteorological Magazine of October 1926. In this case the artificial 'horizon' was a building some miles off, and the colour of the flash was "a smoky white with a faint tinge of green". Mr. Barber also comments on the small saturation of the colours which he observed; it is possible that this is due, not to the nearness of the 'horizon', but to the smoky atmosphere of London.
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BROOKS, C. The 'Green Flash' at Sunset with a Near Horizon. Nature 156, 368 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156368b0
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